Brahms hates tenors
Your Honor, I would like it entered into the record that Johannes Brahms has a personal grudge against tenors, and that this grudge is known to manifest in the form of inhumane treatment of the same. I offer as evidence Exhibit A. Ein Deutsches Requiem, sixth movement, from the Allegro at bar 208 to the end of the movement. It starts high, and then it Never. Fucking. Comes. Down. For what, ten straight minutes? Or are those millennia? I'm really not entirely sure: my sense of time dies with my voice well before the transition from fortissimo straight to tenor solo at piano espressivo in measure 290. Out of 349.
Don't get me wrong: it's a beautiful piece, and I love it. But just damn.
(LJ Spellchecker Genius of the Day: espressivo -> oppressive)
Don't get me wrong: it's a beautiful piece, and I love it. But just damn.
(LJ Spellchecker Genius of the Day: espressivo -> oppressive)